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Originally posted by piratenews:
One of several prior Orders of Protection against this nuclear-bomb machinist, business graduate, teacher (note lack of spell lernin):
http://web.knoxnews.com/pdf/2010/feb/021110inskipweb.pdf

Some crazy people just can't be quiet when gittin robbed.

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Anthony Foster, 49, revealed Friday he's the anonymous tipster who e-mailed school administrators in November and called his brother, then a fourth-grade teacher at Inskip, "a ticking time bomb."

"I could not believe he was hired as a teacher," Anthony Foster said.

The gunshots that nearly killed Principal Elisa Luna and Assistant Principal Amy Brace came from a pistol Mark Foster, 48, bought last month at a local gun show , according to court documents revealed Friday. Police said he fired at least five shots from the .38-caliber Smith & Wesson revolver Wednesday at Luna, 39, and Brace, 40, in the school office after learning he wouldn't have a job next year.

Police said Luna identified Mark Foster as the shooter when officers arrived. Knoxville Police Department Sgt. Tom Walker discovered the gun and five shell casings in Mark Foster's car about 15 minutes later when officers stopped the car on Central Avenue Pike about a mile away, according to a search warrant.

Mark Foster bought the revolver at the Gun Show in the Smokies, held Jan. 30-31 at the Jacob Building in Chilhowee Park, according to another search warrant. Police said they're still working to determine whether the gun came from a licensed dealer, who would have been required by Tennessee law to run a background check, or from a private owner, who would have been free of that responsibility under what critics call the state's "gun show loophole."

Foster had no history of felony convictions or arrests, meaning a background check wouldn't have kept him from buying a gun. He had no carry permit, according to the state Department of Safety.

School officials said Foster passed a fingerprint check, a drug test and a check for any history of child abuse investigations before being hired. His brother said that's not enough.

Anthony Foster said he can't understand why school officials didn't take him more seriously when he began sending anonymous e-mails about his brother. The e-mails, sent from "johnnysellers44@yahoo.com," called the teacher violent, unpredictable and mentally unstable.

Anthony Foster, who has a history of legal and family fights with his brother, said he came forward Friday because his brother is now behind bars and no longer a threat to him or other family members. He accused investigators of spending more time trying to identify him than checking out his accusations.

Anthony Foster believes his brother was headed to Anderson County, where both Fosters lived less than a mile apart on the same road, when police arrested him.

"I don't think he was finished," Anthony Foster said. "I truly believe he was en route back here."

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redmenacechick writes:

Big brother should've had some intestinal fortitude to enlighten the school about his little brother and not spinlelessly hide behind the curtain of anonymity. They could have treated that as credible information and acted upon it. You can't lend much merit to anything anonymous. If you're that concerned, you should validate it with your identity.

TennMom writes:

If Anthony Foster believed his brother was a danger to others, he should not have hidden behind anonymity when sending his email warnings. Perhaps, if school officials had known that the emails were coming from one who knew Mark Foster very well, they would have taken the warning seriously. Further, I don't see how school officials or law enforcement should shoulder the blame for an obviously unbalanced individual getting his hands on a gun, but it seems nobody wants to mention our state's liberal and lax gun laws until something like this happens. Until the legislature closes the gun show/individual seller loopholes , dangerous, angry people will have easy access to guns, and will continue to maim or kill innocent citizens.

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Anthony Foster insists his brother suffered from a history of mental illness, including a "breakdown" in the 1980s that cut short enlistment in the Air Force.

"He kept it secret a long time," Anthony Foster said. "He would not tell anybody."

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"One day after his surprise resignation, former Knox County School Board Member Bill Phillips says he's relieved. He's also criticizing the group that tried to remove him from office. Part of the reason for the recall effort was a misdemeanor assault committed by Phillips in December 2008. The incident involved Phillips and his wife. According to the incident report from the Knox County Sheriff's Office, "the suspect pressed the handgun into the victim's abdomen and threatened to kill her." 6 News asked Phillips about the incident that happened nearly 14 months ago. "There was a statement, just a generalized statement made and I'm not even going to discuss that. I don't have to explain myself to anyone."
http://www.wate.com/Global/story.asp?S=11883870

Knox County TN shool board member convicted of beating his wife, refused to resign, unable to be fired
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2010/jan/25/phillips-resigns-school-board
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Dr Death Amy Bishop PhD assassin from Harvard

Accused shooter linked to Harvard bomb plot

More details emerge from Alabama professor’s past linking her to cases

14 Feb 2010

The scientist who is accused of killing three colleagues at the University of Alabama had been a key suspect in an attempted bomb plot at Harvard in 1993, police officials told The Boston Globe on Sunday.

Authorities questioned Amy Bishop and her husband, James Anderson, in March 1993 after a bomb-laden package was delivered to a Harvard professor and doctor at Boston's Children's Hospital, the Globe reported.

The plot was the latest revelation linking Bishop to past investigations. Bishop is accused of shooting to death three colleagues during a faculty meeting on the University of Alabama's Hunstville, Ala. campus on Friday.

Bishop, who has four children, was arrested soon after the shooting and charged with capital murder. Other charges are pending. Her husband was detained and questioned by police but has not been charged.

In 1986, Bishop shot and killed her 18-year-old brother with a shotgun at their Braintree, Mass., home. She told police at the time that she had been trying to learn how to use the gun, which her father had bought for protection, when it accidentally discharged.

Authorities released her and said the episode was a tragic accident. She was never charged, though police Chief Paul Frazier on Saturday questioned how the investigation was handled.

Bomb sent to doctor

In the Harvard plot, a police official told the Globe that Bishop's name surfaced as a suspect because she was allegedly concerned about getting a negative evaluation on her doctorate work from Dr. Paul Rosenberg.

During the initial investigation, Rosenberg told police that he had received a thin, long package addressed to him and soon discovered that was filled with wires and a cylinder, according to the Globe.

The package had contained two pipe bombs, which were hooked up two nine-volt batteries, the Globe reported.

During a search of Bishop's computer, investigators discovered a draft of a story that Bishop had written about a female scientist who had killed her brother and was hoping to find redemption in life my becoming a great scientist, the Globe reported.

Bishop and her husband were never charged in the Harvard plot.

'It was just a normal day'

Back in Alabama, some of Bishop's colleagues, including William Setzer, chairman of the department of chemistry, told The Associated Press they did not know about Bishop's past.

Alabama police said the gun she is accused of using in Friday's shooting was not registered, and investigators don't know how or where she got it.

Just after the shooting, her husband James Anderson told the Chronicle, she called and asked him to pick her up. She never mentioned the shooting, he said.

Anderson said his wife had an attorney but would not say who it was. He declined further comment to The Associated Press on Sunday. However, he told the Chronicle of Higher Education earlier in the day that he had no idea his wife had a gun — nor did he know of any threats or plans to carry out the shooting when he dropped her off at the faculty meeting Friday.

Even in the days and hours before the shooting, Bishop's friends, colleagues and students said she was acting like the intelligent — but odd — professor they knew.

UAH student Andrew Cole was in Bishop's anatomy class Friday morning and said she seemed perfectly normal. Kourtney Lattimore, 19, a sophomore studying nursing who had Bishop for anatomy and physiology courses, said she didn't notice anything out of the ordinary.

"She was fine. It was a normal day," Lattimore said.

Bishop had worked closely for three years with Dick Reeves, who had been CEO of BizTech, which had been working with her to market a cell incubator she invented to replace traditional equipment used in live cell cultures. Bishop often mentioned the issue of tenure in their discussions, Reeves said.

"It was important to her," he said.

Tenure denied

However, the two had spoken as early as Wednesday, and Reeves said she showed no signs of distress.

Tenure — a type of job-for-life security afforded academics — is often a stressful process for anyone up for review, Setzer said. Bishop was up front about the issue, often bringing it up in meetings where the subject wasn't appropriate.

"That was another thing that made her different," Setzer said. "In committee meetings she didn't pretend that it wasn't happening or anything. She was even loud about it: That they denied her tenure and she was appealing it, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah."

Some have said the shootings stemmed from Bishop's tenure dispute, though authorities have refused to discuss a motive. Andrea Bennett, a sophomore majoring in nursing and an athlete at UAH, said a coach told her team that Bishop had been denied tenure, which the coach said may have led to the shooting.

Killed were Gopi K. Podila, the chairman of the Department of Biological Sciences, and professors Adriel Johnson and Maria Ragland Davis. Three people were wounded. Two of them — Joseph Leahy and staffer Stephanie Monticciolo — were in critical condition early Sunday. The third, Luis Cruz-Vera, had been released from the hospital.

Sammie Lee Davis, Davis' husband, said in a brief phone interview that he was told a faculty member got angry while discussing tenure at the meeting and started shooting. He said his wife had described Bishop as "not being able to deal with reality" and "not as good as she thought she was."

Bishop was calm as she got into a police car Friday, denying that the shootings occurred. "It didn't happen. There's no way. ... They are still alive."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35397792/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/

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"I don't regret setting bombs. I feel we didn't do enough. Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at. Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon.''
-Professor Bill Ayers, FBI/CIA employee and confessed bomber of NYPD HQ, US Capitol, NY Supreme Court, bombed and killed two female bombers in his house, busted CIA LSD mind-control agent Timothy Leary out of prison, confessed to 12 bombings but never prosecuted, author of Barack Hussien Obama Sotoro's authorized biography and grant recipient of Obama's Annenberg Foundation

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